Lee Garmes(1898–1978)

One of the most innovative of pioneer cameramen, Lee Garmes started his career on the East Coast with the New York Motion Picture Company, but was soon persuaded by the director Thomas H. Ince to join him in Hollywood. Garmes quickly climbed his way up the ladder, from painter's assistant to prop boy (future director Henry Hathaway shared the same... See full bio »

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[interviewed in 1967]: I'm very sympathetic with all the cinematic changes that have taken place in Europe over the last ten years or so. We try to be too perfectionist here, and that makes everything look too manufactured. See more
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